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Jan 22, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Saturday, January 22, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin If ever I had to choose just one Richard Strauss opus it could certainly be Alpine Symphony. It represents more than the mechanics of climbing a mountain, and it may well chart Life’s...
Jan 22, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Four choice pieces by Sir Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934) beginning with Trio (for violin/Lawrence Power, cello/Adrian Brendel, and piano/Tim Horton; 2011), a restless fifteen-minute work, its single movement intense, expressive (Expressionist) and gripping in its...
Jan 22, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Following this, http://www.colinscolumn.com/paul-lewis-plays-beethovens-bagatelles-harmonia-mundi/, and this, http://www.colinscolumn.com/paul-lewis-records-haydn-piano-sonatas-for-harmonia-mundi/, Paul Lewis now turns to Brahms, the twenty pieces that constitute his...
Jan 22, 2022 | Recording Reviews
Recorded at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw (12/1999) or at the Berlin Philharmonie (4/1996) or during the Styriarte Festival in Graz, Austria (7/1989, 7/1997, 6/1999, 6/2002, 6/2004, 6/2007) Not for a second does one doubt the close bond between the COE and Nikolaus...
Jan 22, 2022 | News, Videos
György Cziffra at the BBC (“1962-1963 complete TV broadcasts”). [Repertoire listed in...
